Speaker 1: All right, So I'm I'm I'm going to point out
Speaker 1: something that's either going to blow your mind or totally
Speaker 1: hohm and you have you've all known this?
Speaker 2: Oh, I love it. I love the fifty to fifty chance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I don't hear home a lot
Speaker 1: anymore now like that. Okay, So when Indy was a baby,
Speaker 1: we you know, we would sing to him. And I
Speaker 1: had this moment where I was singing Twinkle Twinkle, Little
Speaker 1: Star and then went into aby Seed and I realized,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's the same melody, right, and then
Speaker 1: Bob Bob Black Sheep, and I was like, we're all
Speaker 1: children's songs to the same melody. So have this realization,
Speaker 1: you know, and I will. Did you ever think about this?
Speaker 3: No, I don't have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, if you don't have kids, you don't think
Speaker 1: about it. They're all they use the same two or
Speaker 1: three melodies over and over. Okay, So have that experience
Speaker 1: by then. I play this game with Indy when we're
Speaker 1: in the car. I have a like, I put on
Speaker 1: a playlist of movie soundtracks and some of them he knows,
Speaker 1: you know, And and the game is, can you guess
Speaker 1: what movie it's from? That you've seen Harry Potter mostly
Speaker 1: John Williams stuff he recognizes right away. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's obsessed and it's so fun. But then I also
Speaker 1: put in some that he has never seen the movie
Speaker 1: and doesn't know it. And what I do then is
Speaker 1: I'm like, what does this make you feel? What does
Speaker 1: it make you think about? And it's really fun because
Speaker 1: often you kind of land where the movie is without
Speaker 1: knowing what movie it's from. So it'll be like, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like we're stressed out and we're in space,
Speaker 1: but there's something magical going on, you know, And then
Speaker 1: it's like it's Interstellar, you know, or whatever, and you
Speaker 1: just keep playing with that. And I do it too,
Speaker 1: like I don't look at what it is, it just
Speaker 1: comes on. But anyway, Chariots a Fire came on the
Speaker 1: classic movie, right, So it starts and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: and India, I'm like, what does this make you think?
Speaker 1: And we're listening to it and the melody comes in
Speaker 1: and goes, I can't sing it all, but you know,
Speaker 1: it starts going and and I'm like, what does it
Speaker 1: make you think? And he goes on top of spagety
Speaker 1: Oh my god, and it literally is the same melody,
Speaker 1: and I'm like Chariots a Fire, it's ruined and like
Speaker 1: and then I remember in college, like I had this
Speaker 1: friend who when that song Iris by the Google Dolls
Speaker 1: came on where it was like you know, in the
Speaker 1: don nd the world and my friends just started singing
Speaker 1: singer a song, you're the piano man. I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, Like, there's so many examples of this. The
Speaker 1: other one is, uh, Lady Madonna. I guess it's just
Speaker 1: like the Beatle song is done over to. It's like
Speaker 1: the Sublime song Early in the Morning, right ras it
Speaker 1: it's the same melody.
Speaker 3: Have you ever found Have you ever listened to Access
Speaker 3: of Awesome?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 3: Access of Awesome is a three person group from England,
Speaker 3: either England or Australia. I think, oh, yes, you play
Speaker 3: just play the four chord songs and they play the
Speaker 3: same four chords over and over again and sing like
Speaker 3: sixty songs.
Speaker 1: The chords. Yes, the chords is one thing, right, because
Speaker 1: there's but the actual melody, like note for note is
Speaker 1: like the next level. And I actually don't think it's
Speaker 1: really a gotcha moment, you know, Like I don't I
Speaker 1: think it's more just speaks to the universality of these
Speaker 1: good melodies, like they're hook they have a hook to them,
Speaker 1: they're they're catchy, they're fun. Because yeah, if you look
Speaker 1: at just like chord progression, something like like Pocable Canon,
Speaker 1: which you and I both used to love when we
Speaker 1: were teenagers, that like those chords are just sort of
Speaker 1: like mathematically perfect, that that so many songs just riff
Speaker 1: on that same chord progression because it's so satisfying to hear.
Speaker 1: It's like that you build the tension and you come
Speaker 1: back to a sense of release and repetitive. It's so great.
Speaker 1: But yeah, when it's the actual melody, I love it.
Speaker 1: I find it so fun. I actually think it's inspiring
Speaker 1: in a way because it's like there's nothing new under
Speaker 1: the sun, you know, like.
Speaker 2: Tables actually hire music experts now to make sure this
Speaker 2: doesn't happen because there have been so many lawsuits and.
Speaker 3: Rip plangierism, right, it's just essential.
Speaker 1: Well, but I don't think it's conscious most of the time,
Speaker 1: you know, Like I think that you know, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: fascinated by this too, Like I'm reading all about the
Speaker 1: what was that the song that lost the lawsuit a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Oh my god, what's his name?
Speaker 1: He was the son of a sick comm actor Rob
Speaker 1: and they lost that.
Speaker 2: But you Gay's estate, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And now when you can hear it's like, oh that
Speaker 1: you stole the whole vibe, like you still like all
Speaker 1: the instrumentation and the melody. You know, it's like, wow, okay,
Speaker 1: that's you know, whereas what's his name? The English singer
Speaker 1: who got sued recently and got out of it again,
Speaker 1: I'm horrible with sharing, you know, that is like a
Speaker 1: much more Yeah, that's just like like you're saying, well,
Speaker 1: those are like just the same chords and a similar melody.
Speaker 1: But you and you can see that that there's a
Speaker 1: an unconsciousness to the absorption of, you know, a good
Speaker 1: song and then sort of writing your own song and
Speaker 1: not realizing, oh, I'm I'm actually quoting something without even
Speaker 1: knowing it.
Speaker 2: Very interesting. Well, writer, we'll have to have you come
Speaker 2: up with your own individual song that just steals another
Speaker 2: melody and then I want to hear your lyrics totally.
Speaker 2: Next next pre show chatter, I want to hear your song.
Speaker 3: I'm going to have on tap a spaghetti in my
Speaker 3: head for months now.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that great song. We love it in
Speaker 2: this house. Welcome to Pond Meets World. I'm Daniel Fischel,
Speaker 2: I'm Rider Strong, and I'm Wilfordell. Welcome to this episode.
Speaker 2: Recap of season four, episode eighteen, Uncle Daddy. It originally
Speaker 2: aired February fourteenth, Valentine's Day, Yeah, nineteen ninety seven. The synopsis.
Speaker 2: When Eric discovers his girlfriend Kelly has a son, he
Speaker 2: decides he's ready to have an adult relationship. However, he's
Speaker 2: not as prepared for adult responsibility as he thought. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Corey Tapanga and Sean study for the SATs. It was
Speaker 2: directed by Jeff McCracken. It was written by Steve Young.
Speaker 2: And before I jump into our guest stars, do you
Speaker 2: guys have any overall thoughts?
Speaker 1: I completely forgot this episode existed. Me too, really, ifoundly
Speaker 1: didn't remember anything. Yeah, I assumed you you had some
Speaker 1: memories of it, but I was sort of like, oh,
Speaker 1: is this Tommy? Is this a Tommy? Like I remember
Speaker 1: Tommy storyline, but of course we brought him back for
Speaker 1: Girl Meets World and all that. And then I remembered
Speaker 1: that we that the kid who had guest starred on
Speaker 1: our show, went on to do Liar Liar. I remember
Speaker 1: think he did.
Speaker 3: Liar Liar first.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I remember, okay, But for some reason I
Speaker 1: made the connection later. So in my mind it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's doing Liar and Liar and that was a big movie.
Speaker 1: But no, didn't remember anything about this. I remember the.
Speaker 2: Story Justin Justin Cooper the actor were talking about. I
Speaker 2: remembered the same thing. When the episode started, I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: are we all ready to Tommy? And then when I
Speaker 2: saw Justin, I was like, oh, I remember Justin. I
Speaker 2: was a teenager who loved kids, like loved kids, and
Speaker 2: so anytime we had small kids on set for me,
Speaker 2: it was like very fun. So I remember Justin. I
Speaker 2: remembered enjoying like hanging out with him and thinking he
Speaker 2: was the sweet But I did not remember anything about
Speaker 2: the storyline, the A storyline or the B storyline. But
Speaker 2: will you said you do, so.
Speaker 1: I just remembered.
Speaker 3: I remembered working with Justin, who was very very cool
Speaker 3: little kid, and he and I got along really well.
Speaker 3: And I remember working with Britney who.
Speaker 2: Was great, such a good actress.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she and I got along very very well,
Speaker 3: I actually saw her years later. She and I hung
Speaker 3: out a little bit, so yeah, no, I mean I
Speaker 3: knew Brittany as well, but the actual storyline I didn't
Speaker 3: remember much of. I didn't remember the sat part of
Speaker 3: the storyline at all, and it wasn't my favorite episode.
Speaker 3: But because of me, I thought the writing was fine.
Speaker 3: I thought my acting wasn't great in this episode. I
Speaker 3: felt it felt kind of I don't know, like at
Speaker 3: least I looked at it. When I finished, I was like, well,
Speaker 3: I was definitely trying to make choices, so I gave
Speaker 3: myself that kind of pat on the back. But I
Speaker 3: didn't think a lot of the choices were that good.
Speaker 3: But at least I was attempting something. And I thought
Speaker 3: my scenes with the little kid were better than my
Speaker 3: scenes with Britney. That makes sense. I thought I was
Speaker 3: more natural with Justin than I was with Brittany.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you. You were you were more
Speaker 2: natural with Justin, and yet I still loved your scenes
Speaker 2: with Brittany. For me, I loved the episode. I think
Speaker 2: it's a great I think it's a great episode idea.
Speaker 2: I think the storyline of dating somebody with a kid
Speaker 2: and how that changes your relationship and how that you
Speaker 2: know what it means to truly take on that kind
Speaker 2: of responsibility. I love all of it. I did not
Speaker 2: think she looked any older than you, and I also
Speaker 2: didn't think she needed to be any older than you. No,
Speaker 2: I felt like they could have and I guess the
Speaker 2: only reason they're doing that is because I guess, what
Speaker 2: is Eric at this point? Nineteen and so if she
Speaker 2: had a six year old, I guess she would have
Speaker 2: had a kid at thirteen. So they had to make
Speaker 2: her a little older.
Speaker 1: They didn't say how.
Speaker 3: Much older though, right, I mean they never really got
Speaker 3: to You said a few years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you said, you know, you're a few years older,
Speaker 2: like right at the beginning.
Speaker 3: So figure she's what twenty five maybe twenty four?
Speaker 2: Maybe twenty four. The other thing, I'll say that because
Speaker 2: I loved the episode. I was shocked by the clapping
Speaker 2: at the end over the SATs really weird.
Speaker 3: It's also I didn't understand. I thought they could have
Speaker 3: done and I know we'll get into it, but I
Speaker 3: thought they could have attached what Eric learns more to
Speaker 3: then I've got to go take my SATs. Yeah, than
Speaker 3: just one line at the end, like well gonna go
Speaker 3: take my sat And it was like, oh, that was
Speaker 3: a weird transition. It wasn't earned at all.
Speaker 1: But you know what's funny about this episode for me,
Speaker 1: and I'm curious what you think about it. Will Like
Speaker 1: we've talked about how Eric never had a partner or never,
Speaker 1: but we actually investigated his dating life pretty I know,
Speaker 1: you know, this is now, I would say, the third
Speaker 1: time where Eric has fallen for sort of the wrong
Speaker 1: girl or a girl that he doesn't expect to fall
Speaker 1: for and grows from it. And because you know, is
Speaker 1: a good date, is a good guy? Is? Like you know,
Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, we I think in our
Speaker 1: minds we've all absorbed season five and forward Eric, which
Speaker 1: is just sort of wacky Eric. Yeah, he's not He's
Speaker 1: not a romantic. I mean, I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: those episodes because I know you were pursuing Rachel and
Speaker 1: a lot of that, but like, yeah, but this is now.
Speaker 1: This is you know, first of all, Eric and the
Speaker 1: older women like multiple episodes, but we.
Speaker 3: Talk about taking from our lives and I always dated
Speaker 3: older women and they took stuff from your life, and
Speaker 3: I bet you they took that from my life.
Speaker 1: The way already at this point in real life, you
Speaker 1: were dating older women.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well remember I mean season two, when I
Speaker 3: was eighteen, I was already with Jill, who was ten
Speaker 3: eleven years older than me. And I mean that was two.
Speaker 3: That was just my I mean that's I've always my
Speaker 3: entire life dated older women. Always. I think once or
Speaker 3: twice in my life I dated somebody my age or younger.
Speaker 3: It was always older women. I just have always been
Speaker 3: attracted older women.
Speaker 1: You know, they probably did from your life and it
Speaker 1: just made sense they took it.
Speaker 3: But you know, the funny thing is exactly what you're
Speaker 3: talking about is where remembering it the same way. You
Speaker 3: and I remember never having worked together, and then when
Speaker 3: we watched the show, we were like, we work together all.
Speaker 2: The time, all the time.
Speaker 1: So it's did in the beginning, but in the beginning
Speaker 1: we were now season four when of Eric and now
Speaker 1: we're done. Oh wait, we got in a fight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you pushed me again.
Speaker 3: But for the most part, but I remembered it was
Speaker 3: like writer and I did two scenes together and couldn't
Speaker 3: stop laughing. And that's why. But when we watched it,
Speaker 3: it was we worked together a lot. I think it's
Speaker 3: the same thing where I'm like, Eric never had a girlfriend.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like, oh no, he actually dated a
Speaker 3: specific type of woman that wasn't always right for him.
Speaker 3: But they were always good women. They never had they
Speaker 3: were never awful older women. They were just it was
Speaker 3: wrong timing or they had other things going on in
Speaker 3: their life that Eric wasn't prepared to deal with. But
Speaker 3: they always had him with good people that weren't right
Speaker 3: for him, and then he took from that to grow
Speaker 3: better as a person, which is great and go take
Speaker 3: your SATs. But yeah, so I liked it. It was just
Speaker 3: my performance wasn't my favorite.
Speaker 1: It is really intense in the cosmog a boy mets world.
Speaker 1: How important sat is in college. I know, like it's
Speaker 1: just you either are a towny with no job prospects
Speaker 1: and a child out of wedlock, or you are You
Speaker 1: go to college and you uh and you get and
Speaker 1: it's so interesting to consider. You know, something that Jeff
Speaker 1: Sherman pointed out when he came back on our show
Speaker 1: that Michael didn't go to college. You know, our sort
Speaker 1: of leading creative voice was not a college graduate. Had
Speaker 1: actually I think started and dropped out and and yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's just it's that the world of Boy meets
Speaker 1: World just pushes towards that as like the ticket to
Speaker 1: a better life.
Speaker 3: And I think that was also very much an eighties
Speaker 3: and nineties thing. Was absolutely to a better life. It
Speaker 3: was you know, nowadays, I you keep hearing about people
Speaker 3: and if I had a kid that was college age,
Speaker 3: I'd be like, maybe go to two year school. Maybe right,
Speaker 3: But you can hear it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, like what we hear in that
Speaker 1: applause at the end at Eric's line is that it's
Speaker 1: so tethered to like he has learned this lesson and
Speaker 1: therefore he's going to do the right thing. Whereas nowadays
Speaker 1: we kind of hear that and we go, is that
Speaker 1: what what?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: This doesn't equal this?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: This plus this does not equal that? And yet the
Speaker 1: audience and I don't know it. Part of the reason
Speaker 1: it felt awkward, I think is because the audience applause
Speaker 1: was inserted or at least bumped up. It sounded like
Speaker 1: they started a little earlier than what actually naturally happened.
Speaker 1: And again that was a choice in the editing, a
Speaker 1: choice to make sure the end on a triumphant note
Speaker 1: of SATs and that just felt forced. Yeah nowadays, you know,
Speaker 1: at the time, I don't know if it did, but
Speaker 1: it felt very forced watching I.
Speaker 3: Remember I remember Michael and Jeff Sherman both telling me
Speaker 3: at the time when they said Eric was going to college, like,
Speaker 3: do you realize how many people will go to college
Speaker 3: because they see you go to college on the show?
Speaker 3: When I remember getting letters and from people saying like
Speaker 3: I didn't think I could do it, and because of you,
Speaker 3: I went to college and bought and it was so
Speaker 3: I mean, it made it so it is that was
Speaker 3: something that they were cognizant of.
Speaker 1: Is there. It's an instructional element moralizing, an element of
Speaker 1: in a way, and it does make sense. You think
Speaker 1: about Feenie as like the figure of values. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a teacher. It's about education. You are supposed to
Speaker 1: get an education according to the laws of boys.
Speaker 3: They mentioned so they mentioned Alan goes into the Navy,
Speaker 3: but they say he and Amy medic college.
Speaker 1: No, because they would have met before college.
Speaker 2: Did they traveled there?
Speaker 1: They're they're steamy Europe a wild time in Reginal.
Speaker 3: Reginal Fairfield over there they had a two and a half,
Speaker 3: a two and a half way.
Speaker 2: This episode guest starring Britney Powell as Kelly, a former
Speaker 2: playboy model who was seen on TV shows like Friends,
Speaker 2: California Dreams, and Pacific Palisades. Also, she dated Vern Troyer,
Speaker 2: the actor behind the iconic role of Mini Me in
Speaker 2: the Austin Powers movie, from two thousand and seven until
Speaker 2: his death in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah's are together for a long time. She was also
Speaker 3: an Airborne just like like you know, the huge teen
Speaker 3: movie back in the day with Shane West, the rollerblading
Speaker 3: movie with Jack Black, And.
Speaker 1: There's a rollerblading movie, Yes, Shane West to Jack Black.
Speaker 3: Hell, yeah, it's I'm not pretty sure Shane Am I wrong?
Speaker 3: It might not be Shane West. But this was like,
Speaker 3: this was before the deca Shane West. Yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 3: was before Brink became big on on Disney Channel original movies.
Speaker 3: Airborne was like the it was the North Shore or
Speaker 3: rad of rollerblading movies. Was it was great?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 1: Didn't know this exists?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Great? Also guest starring Justin Cooper as Ryan, the adorable
Speaker 2: child actor best known for his role Little Max, the
Speaker 2: son of Jim Carrey's son and Liar Liar. He was
Speaker 2: also seen on Full House, and starred in two different
Speaker 2: sitcoms that each only went one season, The Boys Are
Speaker 2: Back and Brothers Keeper.
Speaker 3: He was Ja McDermott, by the way, Shane Shane McDermott,
Speaker 3: not Shane West got it.
Speaker 2: He was also Dennis the Menace in the straight to
Speaker 2: video sequel Dennis the Menace Strikes Again. And he is
Speaker 2: now a radio producer and on air personality on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports Radio, and we are going to be having him
Speaker 2: as a guest next week.
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait to see him. I think he
Speaker 3: was five the last time I saw him exactly.
Speaker 1: I wonder how old he actually was when we filmed this.
Speaker 3: I think he was like five or six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, really, yeah, I think he was. Usually was
Speaker 1: an older playing young kid actor, so I assumed he
Speaker 1: was probably seven. But wow.
Speaker 2: Jumping into our recap, we are in Chubby's. Eric and
Speaker 2: a new mystery girl are heavily making out in a booth.
Speaker 2: He pulls away to ask, I hope I'm not getting
Speaker 2: mixed signals here, and then they kiss again because I'd
Speaker 2: hate to think the fact that you're a few years
Speaker 2: older than me is putting you off. They continue to
Speaker 2: kiss again, but Eric keeps interrupting, I mean, what is
Speaker 2: age really? The woman finally responds, just shut up, you're winning.
Speaker 2: Eric is stoked.
Speaker 1: Did you guys notice the swing wall for the first time?
Speaker 3: Of course, there's a couple of different angles of Chubbies
Speaker 3: this time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we never see that other we've never seen,
Speaker 1: you know, looking downstage at the booth when she kisses
Speaker 1: you back. That her angle is a new wall that
Speaker 1: we've never seen. It's right there by the way.
Speaker 3: Really, it's tight.
Speaker 2: I know you had no idea that Chubby's was just
Speaker 2: right there.
Speaker 3: It's a small place. It's a small place for the
Speaker 3: entire town to go to.
Speaker 2: And then also that other angle where we see from
Speaker 2: behind you, where we actually get the real view that
Speaker 2: that pill table's back from there. Yeah, so Eric wants
Speaker 2: to know what she's doing tomorrow. She's apprehensive. Three days
Speaker 2: in a row. I don't know, that's starting to sound
Speaker 2: kind of serious. I mean, how well do they know
Speaker 2: each other really? Eric offers, well, let's start with me.
Speaker 2: He gives her a sly smile and concludes that's pretty
Speaker 2: much it. He asks her to tell him everything. She
Speaker 2: gets nervous everything. The woman stutters, thinking over the question.
Speaker 2: Eventually she gives up, why don't we go back to
Speaker 2: my place? Eric gives out a little yeah yeah, such.
Speaker 3: A Michael, that's such a Michael line and reading absolutely.
Speaker 2: And then we're in the mystery woman's apartment. She warns
Speaker 2: Eric in the hallway if he wants to pursue a
Speaker 2: relationship with her, he's going to need to commit to
Speaker 2: someone else as well. She opens the door to reveal
Speaker 2: another pretty woman.
Speaker 1: Well in the second you see that basketball above the door,
Speaker 1: you know what's comed.
Speaker 3: Of course, it's actually a pretty it's a very adult
Speaker 3: but very funny joke that she's a very funny into
Speaker 3: a three way, which is what's what's happening. I mean,
Speaker 3: just yeah, crazy, it is.
Speaker 2: It is funny.
Speaker 1: It keeps going for like, I know, page and a
Speaker 1: half of jokes. The babysitter, the you know, it's like okay.
Speaker 2: Eric looks at them both. Oh no, this is too
Speaker 2: good to be true. Your vampires, aren't you? He pulls
Speaker 2: down his shirt collar. Go ahead. She explains that this
Speaker 2: is Diana the babysitter. Oh. Eric loves this. He thinks
Speaker 2: they're role playing. I want to be the commander in
Speaker 2: chief of the Allied armies. The woman explains, no, no,
Speaker 2: Diana is my babysitter. And then a little boy runs
Speaker 2: into the room. Hi, mommy. He gives Eric's date a
Speaker 2: big hug, and then Eric puts two and two together, Mommy,
Speaker 2: that would be like, she cuts him off, I'd like
Speaker 2: you to meet my son Ryan.
Speaker 1: And then, which is a little intense. Yeah, not to
Speaker 1: not tell a guy that you have a kid until
Speaker 1: the kid is there, and to not tell the kid
Speaker 1: that you're bringing a guy. All of it seems a.
Speaker 3: Little what what whendy? Is it the first date where
Speaker 3: you would say I have a kid? I mean, do
Speaker 3: you think that's the right time to say it? Do
Speaker 3: you tell him right on the first date? Or is
Speaker 3: it just now, I'm gonna go have some fun. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna kind of forget that I'm a mom tonight and
Speaker 3: I'm just going to go on a date. Like, when's
Speaker 3: the proper time to say, By the way, I have
Speaker 3: a child.
Speaker 1: Nowadays, you would know right away ahead of time, because well,
Speaker 1: because you would meet on the line right and you
Speaker 1: would have like a profile, and you'd probably know these
Speaker 1: things about each other. But yeah, I assume it's the
Speaker 1: first It's big part of your life. You can't go
Speaker 1: on a date without somebody watching the kids, so it
Speaker 1: seems like it would be By the way, this is
Speaker 1: part of who I am.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, being a mom is so much now
Speaker 2: a part of who I am, for better or worse.
Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine sitting through an entire meal with someone
Speaker 2: under the auspices of getting to know each other and
Speaker 2: not mentioning the biggest, most time consuming, most important aspect
Speaker 2: of my entire life.
Speaker 1: I know she says three dates or three days.
Speaker 2: Well, she says it three days in a row, but
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean this is only your third date. It
Speaker 2: could be that this is just the first time you
Speaker 2: guys are now going to see each other three days
Speaker 2: in a row, negatively.
Speaker 1: Right, because you could have met You could have met
Speaker 1: out and said hi and gotten each other's number and
Speaker 1: then met the next day, and I guess just had
Speaker 1: more of a casual situation meeting with other people, something
Speaker 1: with other people involved, and then now it's their actual date.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because Eric has so many friends, He's out with
Speaker 3: all of his friends and.
Speaker 2: They had a falling out exactly. Yes, yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree with you, writer obviously for a TV show.
Speaker 2: It makes sense that this is the way they're going
Speaker 2: to show it telling them obviously, But I think in
Speaker 2: real life this would have been a real conversation. I
Speaker 2: have a child, Are you interested in meeting my child?
Speaker 2: Like it's a conversation you have with that other person
Speaker 2: because that's a big responsibility. And then there's probably some
Speaker 2: prep you do to your child as well.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean I feel like most people I know
Speaker 1: single parents keep it keep very separated for like months,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Like they maybe that
Speaker 1: everybody knows about the other person, but they don't bring
Speaker 1: him into the house and into the life for a while,
Speaker 1: because you know, it is really risky, like with a
Speaker 1: kid's heart, for you know, to get attached to you know,
Speaker 1: somebody like Eric in this situation, and then the by
Speaker 1: Eric never see you again. Yeah that's gone, I can devastating.
Speaker 2: Well, then we're in Corey's room. Corey is focused on
Speaker 2: homework as leather Jacket Sean strolls around the room. I
Speaker 2: think I'm developing quite a knack for these Scholastic aptitude tests,
Speaker 2: or as I prefer to call them, SATs. Corey ignores him. Okay,
Speaker 2: here's another one. Verbal Sean confidently answers, it's how you
Speaker 2: talk and stuff keep them coming. Corey explains, no, listen
Speaker 2: to the question. Perreghee is to apagee as Zenith is
Speaker 2: to a niter B cortex or c sulfur. Sean grabs
Speaker 2: his head in agony and makes disgruntled noises, and is
Speaker 2: this the first episode where you do that? And don't
Speaker 2: you continue? Isn't this a running just as before?
Speaker 3: So they set it up originally where both Sean and
Speaker 3: Eric in season two it was thinking cramps. That's right, Okay, yes,
Speaker 3: we had a thinking cramp and that's what I thought.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, they're going to do that again.
Speaker 3: He's going to say thinking cramp and Eric's going to
Speaker 3: acknowledge that, right, And then no, they didn't do any
Speaker 3: of that. They just they went a whole different route
Speaker 3: with it, but it was the same. It's based on
Speaker 3: the thinking.
Speaker 1: It's almost like that they wrote the same joke over
Speaker 1: forget that they had already done it.
Speaker 3: And yes, they wrote drink a Little Star, right, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: They plagiarize themselves.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 2: Corey opens the window and Sean slowly crawls out, still
Speaker 2: groaning in pain. Eric enters the room and heard the
Speaker 2: whole conversation. Hey, Nater, I'm right al and I. Corey nods. Wow.
Speaker 2: Eric explains, first two times I took the SATs, I
Speaker 2: put down sulfur and cortex, and we saw how all
Speaker 2: that worked out for me.
Speaker 3: Boys back in the Corey and Eric back in the bedroom.
Speaker 3: I know, it's kind of nice to be back in
Speaker 3: that set and back just for his comfort again. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's something just kind of nice about that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and especially since the last time we really saw
Speaker 2: you guys in the bedroom there was a lot of tension,
Speaker 2: and now there's none of that brother tension. It's really
Speaker 2: it is a comforting it's a comforting feel. Corey asks
Speaker 2: how his third date with Kelly went, and Eric says
Speaker 2: she took him back to her apartment. Corey's impressed. Wow details.
Speaker 2: Eric breaks it down. Nice apartment, hardwood floor's little kid
Speaker 2: overlooking the park. Corey stops him, whoa, whoa? How did
Speaker 2: she get an apartment overlooking the park?
Speaker 1: Great?
Speaker 2: Eric repeats, funny, I love I love so funny, Corey.
Speaker 1: We go back to Corey the real estate when he
Speaker 1: was trying to help turn her find a place. I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 2: I thought location Location.
Speaker 3: Incredible, this episode great. In this episode, he's so good
Speaker 3: at this. I mean he's good at everything. He really is.
Speaker 3: If the episode's about him, he can can't he can
Speaker 3: handle the load. But when he's just this kind of
Speaker 3: Corey who's coming in joke machine has the b storyline.
Speaker 3: Oh god, he.
Speaker 1: Has a face that he gives Alan later. That is
Speaker 1: one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: I have never seen it because I never watched the episode.
Speaker 1: I'm not in the seats. I was like, what is
Speaker 1: he doing?
Speaker 3: He's great? Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 2: Eric repeats, I said she has a kid. Corey's listening
Speaker 2: skills or subpar? Now does she get the afternoon sun
Speaker 2: and everything? Eric responds, If I'm going to involve you
Speaker 2: in these adult conversations, you're gonna have to pick up
Speaker 2: on little key phrases like she has a kid. Corey
Speaker 2: is surprised. Well, that kind of complicates things, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Eric looks at the positives. They really like each other
Speaker 2: and that's all that matters, right. Eric evaluates his life.
Speaker 2: They're both out in the real world. He's got a
Speaker 2: good job, got me a nice house, frankly, I think
Speaker 2: I'm ready for an adult relationship. I love got me
Speaker 2: a nice.
Speaker 3: House bedroom share with his brother.
Speaker 1: The door, like, it's just perfect.
Speaker 2: Yep, so great, Corey is happy for him. That's great?
Speaker 2: What ad mom and dad think? Eric whimpers, I'm too
Speaker 2: scared to tell him. And then we're in Kelly's apartment
Speaker 2: and now I'm wondering, are we in Ben Finals week?
Speaker 4: This?
Speaker 2: This feels like too big of an episode. This feels
Speaker 2: like too and even for this, he's in too much
Speaker 2: of it to be a Ben Finals week.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, it's It's normally like a scene at the
Speaker 3: end in a Ben Finals week or two scenes at
Speaker 3: the end. It seemed like this was just a B storyline.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, I've noticed, and Ben has Finals, his scenes
Speaker 2: are usually in like the same set so they can be.
Speaker 1: Shot sitting down somewhere so he doesn't have to rehearse.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So Kelly is cleaning up toys when she hears
Speaker 2: a knock at her front door. It's Eric with a
Speaker 2: bouquet of flowers. She admits, I didn't expect to see
Speaker 2: you again, so you didn't expect to see him again,
Speaker 2: But your feels a little weird.
Speaker 3: I think it's the final test.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, I guess, I guess worst case scenario.
Speaker 2: She just introduced Ryan. She didn't say this is a
Speaker 2: guy I'm dating. So for all Ryan knows, he could
Speaker 2: have been there to fix the TV. Like, no, I
Speaker 2: know you were not fix the TV.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Way to make that for something? Just making of anything,
Speaker 3: as long as you say it weird.
Speaker 2: As long as I make you, you're onto something. There
Speaker 2: when most guys find out about and Eric stops her,
Speaker 2: I'm not most guys. Eric tells her he has a
Speaker 2: little brother and a little sister, so he's used to
Speaker 2: being around kids. In fact, he loves kids. He shoots
Speaker 2: a mini basketball into a kid's basketball hoop and makes it.
Speaker 1: No, wait, isn't it a mini football.
Speaker 3: Basketball?
Speaker 1: It is a basketball, wasn't it. I thought he picked
Speaker 1: up a football and threw in the basketball. Was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's my kind of sports.
Speaker 2: No, rider, the round ones, the round ones are basketball.
Speaker 2: The oblong shape is for football.
Speaker 1: So he scored a goal. He scored a goal?
Speaker 3: He why is yeah? I also thought be a joke.
Speaker 3: I thought they were going to build it up for
Speaker 3: a joke. He was gonna miss something was gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh no, you just shot from a foot.
Speaker 2: Away, and it really like to add that in, really
Speaker 2: like could have ruined some takes. If you don't make
Speaker 2: it every time.
Speaker 1: It's will. He did not miss anything, even if he.
Speaker 2: Just made it the first one. Then you have it.
Speaker 2: You don't need to worry about it the rest of them. So, uh,
Speaker 2: that's true. So Kelly breaks it to him, having a kid,
Speaker 2: brother and sister of your own is a little different
Speaker 2: than being around someone else's kid. This doesn't scare Eric.
Speaker 2: He's excited to get to know Ryan. Kelly gushes and
Speaker 2: embraces him. I'm so glad I met you, Eric Matthews.
Speaker 2: Then Ryan runs into the room. Mommy, he cowers as
Speaker 2: he passes Eric. Hello, Sir. Eric playfully responds, sir, No, buddy,
Speaker 2: it's Eric. I met you the other night. Kelly tells
Speaker 2: him he gets a little shy around new people, and
Speaker 2: Eric sits down next to Ryan and asks if he
Speaker 2: can go out for a burger. They'll even bring his mom.
Speaker 2: Ryan asks, you want to come with us? Kelly shrugs,
Speaker 2: I suppose, but you got to put your sweater on first.
Speaker 2: Ryan wins. He doesn't want to. Eric steps in and
Speaker 2: grabs the sweater. I know something about this sweater, and
Speaker 2: I bet that I bet you you don't. This sweater
Speaker 2: was made by a magic genie. He whispers to Kelly,
Speaker 2: our genie's still hot. She encourages him to keep going,
Speaker 2: so Eric tells Ryan anyone who wears this sweater can fly.
Speaker 2: Ryan isn't buying it. Give me a break. Eric shrugs, fine,
Speaker 2: don't fly. Take the bus, and as the adults get
Speaker 2: ready to leave, Ryan puts on the sweater. See this
Speaker 2: sweater can't. Then Eric swoops in to pick up Ryan
Speaker 2: and fly him around the room.
Speaker 1: It makes such perfect sense that eron, I know, wonderful
Speaker 1: with kids, right, Yes, I love this as a development
Speaker 1: of his character. It's like, yes, that makes.
Speaker 3: Well, that's where Tommy came from. I mean, this is
Speaker 3: clearly it's so bonned the whole Tommy, because again, when
Speaker 3: I was watching the episode, I'm way more comfortable working
Speaker 3: with Justin than I was with Britney, and so I
Speaker 3: was just more relaxed.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's all your fault, man, I
Speaker 1: feel like the whole first half of this scene is
Speaker 1: just a little conflict free in a way that like
Speaker 1: I think, I don't know, there's just something about the
Speaker 1: fact that you're like, I'm not most guys, and she's like,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I met you. Eric Matthews. It's like
Speaker 1: all just sort of like everything's working out, and then
Speaker 1: it also works out that you get along with the kid.
Speaker 1: I was kind of like we could have had some
Speaker 1: layers here of like Eric being nervous in the kid,
Speaker 1: she being nervous about Eric and the kid. Then Eric
Speaker 1: and the kid get along great. It could have been
Speaker 1: like one more turn if because the beginning was so
Speaker 1: conflict free, and I felt that for a couple of
Speaker 1: these these scenes with her, it's it's just a little
Speaker 1: like you know that people presenting their their ideas and
Speaker 1: their state of life as opposed to being in conflict
Speaker 1: with one another.
Speaker 3: I think it's an overall conflict for Eric because this
Speaker 3: is the yogurt cup, this is I found my level,
Speaker 3: this is where I'm going to be, and this is
Speaker 3: what I'm this is and I'm fine with it. I
Speaker 3: love it. I'm embracing it. And I think they've done
Speaker 3: that with Eric a bunch of times, where it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, this is okay, here's I'm going.
Speaker 1: To live in this time. He's fine, and then the
Speaker 1: audience is supposed to know it's not sad for him, right,
Speaker 1: But actually, as an actor, that's really hard to play
Speaker 1: because it's a conflict, which is, right, yeah, you're just
Speaker 1: like cool, everything's great.
Speaker 2: He said, that's why I don't do it well. But
Speaker 2: it's it's true because the same thing I felt in
Speaker 2: that yogurt Cup episode, which is like I actually kind
Speaker 2: of at the end of that I kind of thought,
Speaker 2: maybe it would have been good for you to do it.
Speaker 2: And at the end of this episode, I was a
Speaker 2: little like everyone every parent has lost their kid for
Speaker 2: one second and had this experience where they freaked out.
Speaker 2: And I understand that what they're saying is parents have
Speaker 2: made that choice. You don't get the opportunity to back
Speaker 2: out of it after you've already become a parent. But
Speaker 2: like Eric is really good at it, and Eric does
Speaker 2: realize that he's freaked out and he made a mistake
Speaker 2: and that it is really hard. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: felt the same way at the end of this one too,
Speaker 2: which is like, man, this guy's let him look at
Speaker 2: these things. He's good at yeah, it feels like a
Speaker 2: real relationship. But I will also say, the reason we
Speaker 2: know and the reason it hurts us that Eric had
Speaker 2: ever ended up then in a long term serious relationship,
Speaker 2: is because these episodes showed us how much love he
Speaker 2: has to give and showed us how great he is
Speaker 2: in relationship. So it's extra bitter that we never actually
Speaker 2: got to see it be carried out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she goes from I'm so lucky to have
Speaker 1: met you, Eric Matthews to breaking up with him because
Speaker 1: he lost his kid.
Speaker 3: I guess, well, no, I think it's because she's letting
Speaker 3: him go because she not what's best for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even if he decides, even if he's really fighting
Speaker 2: for it, and I do like that. She at the
Speaker 2: end says, well, you know where we live, and then
Speaker 2: we don't know if maybe he's going to show back
Speaker 2: up the next day. But by the time he comes home,
Speaker 2: he has also agreed that what would be best for
Speaker 2: him is taking the SATs. But I was a little
Speaker 2: sad by it.
Speaker 3: I'd be the mayor of yogurt toown right now with
Speaker 3: a kid.
Speaker 2: But no, nope, look at that, Eric yells, we have
Speaker 2: engine failure, and together they land on the couch with
Speaker 2: a big boom. Ryan loves it. He wants to do
Speaker 2: it again. Kelly interrupts, mommy's hungry, let's go. Eric tells
Speaker 2: her there's this really nice restaurant he knows of, but
Speaker 2: Kelly says, kids in nice restaurants don't really work together.
Speaker 2: Eric admits some might think it's elegant and romantic, but
Speaker 2: and we optical flip to where else?
Speaker 1: Chubby like this joke was undercup by the fact that
Speaker 1: they already they were there. The data chokes.
Speaker 3: I thought the same thing. I was like, it was
Speaker 3: a little we were just.
Speaker 1: I know where we're going. I'm getting the tea up
Speaker 1: and the reveal. But oh, we already.
Speaker 3: I felt the same thing.
Speaker 2: So this new little family is sitting at a booth
Speaker 2: and Ryan asks if he can play pinball. Eric pulls
Speaker 2: some quarters out of his pocket and sends him on
Speaker 2: his way. I think the O J Jersey is gone,
Speaker 2: by the way, I saw no remnants.
Speaker 3: You think somebody finally went, hey, wait a second, we
Speaker 3: should take that down. This might not be the best.
Speaker 2: So now alone, Eric and Kelly snuggle. Kelly asks, Okay,
Speaker 2: what's wrong with you? Eric's confused? What the quarters. I
Speaker 2: do my own laundry. Do they not have a washer
Speaker 2: and dryer at the Matthews home?
Speaker 3: Apparently they don't have a washer or a dryer at
Speaker 3: the Matthew's house.
Speaker 1: That seems really unlikely.
Speaker 2: Or they make you do your laundry. It's very strange
Speaker 2: at a laundromat, so Kelly explains, you say all the
Speaker 2: right things. You're good with Ryan, you're cute as heck,
Speaker 2: and you're not running away. Eric says the right thing
Speaker 2: to her, yet again, what could be better than this?
Speaker 2: He admits that all the other girls he's dated, if
Speaker 2: seems so young, Kelly is well grounded and responsible for
Speaker 2: a whole other life. Kelly nods Ryan has been a
Speaker 2: blessing in her life, but at this point in Eric's life,
Speaker 2: is that something he wants. They both look at Ryan,
Speaker 2: who's playing pinball, and he gives them a cute little
Speaker 2: wave and a grin. Eric admits, this is where my
Speaker 2: life is going. Kelly smiles and asks Eric about his.
Speaker 1: Family moving so fast, very quick.
Speaker 2: I know this is where my life is going. Eric
Speaker 2: tells her about Corey. He likes the guy he's turning
Speaker 2: into and actually enjoys hanging out with him now and
Speaker 2: on cue. Corey and Sean walk into Chubbies and Eric
Speaker 2: says not now, get out of here. Sean asks, oh,
Speaker 2: and this is hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's really. I mean, I've definitely had this moment with
Speaker 1: friends where like Indy was two years old and people
Speaker 1: are like, how's your baby? I'm like my baby, Okay,
Speaker 1: well it's been a while since we've seen each other.
Speaker 1: Then you have no idea what children are like.
Speaker 2: They baby.
Speaker 3: Baby?
Speaker 2: Sean asks, where's the baby? Eric repeats himself, get out
Speaker 2: of here now. They don't listen. Corey introduces himself and
Speaker 2: Sean and Sean asks again, no, really, where's the baby?
Speaker 2: He looks under the table. Kelly points to the pinball
Speaker 2: game and Sean responds, Oh, do you mind if I
Speaker 2: go over there and play with the baby? Eric vouches
Speaker 2: for him, so Sean walks over to play Cory.
Speaker 1: The better joke would have been less awe and more
Speaker 1: if I had gone like, oh, like, and you think
Speaker 1: Sean's going to recognize, oh, he's not a baby, and
Speaker 1: it said he's like, then turns oh, can I go
Speaker 1: play with the baby?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Go back righter? And then I do the worst background
Speaker 1: acting in the history of Hysterically. I walk over and
Speaker 1: don't talk to the kid. I don't even like play
Speaker 1: with him. I just stand there and you can see
Speaker 1: my face in the so bad I was not on
Speaker 1: this week, guys.
Speaker 3: He disengaged. I'm out.
Speaker 1: I'm going to have a small part.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh man. Corey says they're going to a movie
Speaker 2: and was wondering if they'd like to come along. Eric
Speaker 2: loves the idea, but Kelly admits I have to get
Speaker 2: Ryan to bed. But you guys go ahead. Corey urges Eric,
Speaker 2: you do not want to miss this one. It's Jim
Speaker 2: Carrey and Steven Seagal starring, and what are you doing
Speaker 2: in my movie?
Speaker 4: I'd watch that, but it's such a random joke that
Speaker 4: it seems like a placeholder joke, like a two am joke.
Speaker 3: And they're like, we're not going to beat that.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, you know. They kept going.
Speaker 4: Keep it.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 2: Eric thinks about it, but tells Corey it's all about
Speaker 2: priorities and his are changing. He turns to Kelly and
Speaker 2: asks if he can come home with her and read
Speaker 2: Ryan a story. Kelly's more than happy to hear that,
Speaker 2: and Corey look a little let down, and then we're
Speaker 2: in the Matthew's living room.
Speaker 1: I think this is where I was kind of like,
Speaker 1: wouldn't she be worried about this at all? I mean,
Speaker 1: especially considering where she ends up, which is that she's
Speaker 1: very aware of like him moving too fast and not
Speaker 1: being ready, and so I don't know, I just want.
Speaker 3: To I think maybe she's falling into the fantasy a
Speaker 3: little bit too, where it's like, how did I meet
Speaker 3: somebody that could this actually work? You know, I had
Speaker 3: a kid so early in my life, is so different
Speaker 3: than everybody around my age, Like, did I actually meet
Speaker 3: somebody that this kid? So that's how I chalked it up.
Speaker 3: Was kind of like she wants it to be yeah.
Speaker 2: And she obviously hasn't experienced that before because she is
Speaker 2: what she has experienced, does everyone running the minute they
Speaker 2: hear about him? So she doesn't really know how does
Speaker 2: this go when it goes? Well?
Speaker 3: Playing into the fantasy at this.
Speaker 2: Point, right exactly. So, Topanga and Corey are studying for
Speaker 2: the SATs while Sean sets his feet on the coffee
Speaker 2: table and leans back in a chair. Tapega reads a
Speaker 2: question aloud and Sean can't handle it. He grabs his
Speaker 2: head in agony again, and to Panga opens the front
Speaker 2: door so he can stumble out. And you're not wearing
Speaker 2: the leather jacket here. You're wearing a different jacket, and
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: Are you wearing Is this the scene, Danielle where you're
Speaker 3: wearing a sweater crop top.
Speaker 2: A crop top sweater?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're now officially in that.
Speaker 2: No. No, because my tummy's not showing. I have hot,
Speaker 2: so my belly button still needs to be warm. I'm
Speaker 2: like Lonnie who wants a coold belly button?
Speaker 3: Gotcha?
Speaker 1: I was wondering again, it was like warm about wardrobe
Speaker 1: so much because I was really bothered by how color
Speaker 1: clashing Eric and Corey's wardrobe was in this scene, because
Speaker 1: it's like they're both you guys are both wearing like
Speaker 1: reddish sweaters. I was just like, wait, it's like they're
Speaker 1: just close enough to bug me, right, that's funny. Something
Speaker 1: was off this this scene.
Speaker 2: Something was off with the wardrobe this this scene. Maybe so,
Speaker 2: Corey smiles, you did that just so we could be alone.
Speaker 2: To Pega walks over and bites his ear while rubbing
Speaker 2: his shoulders. Corey sighs, the ear nice.
Speaker 3: From the audience too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Eric makes his way downstairs. You take those
Speaker 2: SATs six or seven times, you start losing that loving feeling.
Speaker 2: Corey tries to encourage him. Maybe the eighth times the
Speaker 2: charm for you. Why don't you take the SATs again?
Speaker 2: You could go to college, Corey asks if Eric's still
Speaker 2: thinking about college, and Eric shrugs, maybe I'll get around
Speaker 2: to it. But right now I'm happy with my life.
Speaker 2: He's got a good job, a good girl, good kid.
Speaker 2: His life is really coming together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at Wilderness Store plays it pays well at Wilderness Store.
Speaker 3: That doubt still still living with mom and dad.
Speaker 2: But well, that's one of the reasons that exactly, it's
Speaker 2: one of the reasons the Wilderness Store pays so well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you don't have to pay for anything else. Then Amy
Speaker 2: and Allen walk in looking less than happy. Corey into
Speaker 2: Pega greet them, but they don't say anything. Penga gets nervous,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go now, your dad is scaring me. Cory
Speaker 2: assures her everything is just fine. Alan butts in good
Speaker 2: night to Panga. Pega says by and rushes out. Corey
Speaker 2: tries to say he's leaving with her too, but Alan
Speaker 2: points at him. You stay. Corey's confused. I thought you
Speaker 2: guys were going out. Alan scoffs. We did. We got
Speaker 2: about three blocks and the funniest thing happened. We ran
Speaker 2: out of gas. Amy asks, now, who had that car last?
Speaker 2: Alan shouts, good question. I think I know the answer.
Speaker 2: Could it be Corey? Alan explains the rule he who
Speaker 2: has the car last fills the tank with gas. Corey
Speaker 2: apologizes and says he forgot, but Alan interrupts, you're about
Speaker 2: three blocks too late for Sorry, no car for a week.
Speaker 2: Corey's jaw drops and his parents walk out of the room.
Speaker 1: Oh going back. This was where Ben made the face
Speaker 1: when he was when Alan's teeing him up about who
Speaker 1: you know, and I've telling the story and Corey knows
Speaker 1: what's coming. Ben just makes the perfect light. I don't
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pretend I don't know what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: but I'm so worried. It was hysterical.
Speaker 3: Oh my moments that.
Speaker 1: It was perfect, so funny.
Speaker 2: So Corey complains to Eric he could have at least
Speaker 2: let me explain. Eric asks what he had and Corey
Speaker 2: admits nothing. I had nothing. Eric is sympathetic. I was
Speaker 2: once a son myself. I'll go in there and try
Speaker 2: to straighten it out for you. Okay. Corey thanks him,
Speaker 2: and Eric shows off a very proud strut on the
Speaker 2: head of the kitchen.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Eric tells Alan,
Speaker 2: who's dressed like he's delivering packages for you. Ps. I
Speaker 2: can't believe.
Speaker 3: It's like seventies brown the whole and what something's off?
Speaker 3: Something weird because I noticed that as well. It's like
Speaker 3: it's like, are we doing a time travel episode again?
Speaker 1: What are they wearing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't believe the way Corey was laughing at
Speaker 2: you behind your back. Alan. I know it is funny
Speaker 2: because then it doesn't really go anywhere, but it's just like.
Speaker 3: I'll take care of it. Then it's he was really
Speaker 3: saying bad things about you.
Speaker 2: Alan gives a confused look. Just as we hear a
Speaker 2: car honk outside. Eric says that's Kelly and he begins
Speaker 2: to leave, but Amy stops him. You guys have been
Speaker 2: going out for a while, we still haven't met her.
Speaker 2: You should invite her to come in. Eric says they're
Speaker 2: in a hurry, but Amy yells to Kelly come on in.
Speaker 2: Eric's obviously not into the idea, and Alan asks, afraid
Speaker 2: I'll say something to embarrass you. Kelly walks through the
Speaker 2: door and meets the Matthews, introducing herself. Alan child's at
Speaker 2: a boy as he looks her up and down like
Speaker 2: a total creep, Oh weird thing.
Speaker 1: To do, boy, and.
Speaker 2: Looks her up and down. Amy is rightfully embarrassed.
Speaker 1: So many beautiful women. Every every time a door opens
Speaker 1: and a woman walks in on the show, she's gorgeous.
Speaker 1: It's like the.
Speaker 3: Question I had was is and I might be just
Speaker 3: reading too much into this or hopefully this is what
Speaker 3: it was, is that Alan is doing that specifically to
Speaker 3: embarrass Eric. No, because he says, you don't want you
Speaker 3: don't want me to say anything embarrassing, do you like?
Speaker 3: And then he comes in and so he specifically says something, yeah,
Speaker 3: that he knows will be embarrassed.
Speaker 1: It's a charitable to jay. I think if you inserted
Speaker 1: a little more irony in the performance, I might have
Speaker 1: seen that. I think actually the the the joke that
Speaker 1: the writers were going for is that she's older.
Speaker 2: Right, so more like right, it's somebody he would even
Speaker 2: be attracted to like because.
Speaker 1: Because remember when you dated the older woman that Amy
Speaker 1: worked with, Alan was like stoked for you, Like that
Speaker 1: was part of it. And so I think you're playing
Speaker 1: back on that idea of like Alan being like, oh,
Speaker 1: you've got a real woman this time. Unfortunately she you, guys,
Speaker 1: you look older if you look like you're in your
Speaker 1: early twenties, and she looks like she's in early twenties.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't seem like that storyline doesn't visually read.
Speaker 3: Agreed, I was trying to be charitable, Yeah, but unfortunately
Speaker 3: I think you're both right, but I'm trying to be charitrible.
Speaker 2: Amy is rightfully embarrassed, and she introduces herself and Alan.
Speaker 2: Alan shyly smiles, Hello, Kelly, Zippit, Alan Zippit. Then Ryan
Speaker 2: walks in and lodge himself between Eric and Kelly. Kelly
Speaker 2: introduces Ryan to Alan and Amy, who stare at the
Speaker 2: kid in shock. Alan stutters, trying to act normal. Did
Speaker 2: you hear that? Amy? They've got a son? And then
Speaker 2: we go to the commercial break. We're in the Matthew's kitchen.
Speaker 2: Amy gets it together to tell Ryan and Kelly that
Speaker 2: it's nice to meet them both. Alan offers to get
Speaker 2: everyone a drink a juice box. Maybe. Kelly quietly asks
Speaker 2: Eric why he didn't tell them, and he bluffs it's easy,
Speaker 2: then proceeds to quickly introduce his parents to Ryan. Kelly
Speaker 2: gives a full introduction of Ryan to the Matthew saying
Speaker 2: he's six years old and the love of her life.
Speaker 2: Then Morgan peeps her head into the kitchen. Did someone
Speaker 2: mention laser tag? She wants to come too. Alan tells
Speaker 2: her they're on a date and Morgan doesn't understand, so
Speaker 2: she's bringing her brother. Ryan corrects her. I know they
Speaker 2: acted like this was such a burn, like it.
Speaker 3: Was such a huge thing.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know, I do like this, you know, inserting
Speaker 1: Morgan into this situation makes it a lot of sense,
Speaker 1: and it's a cool way to highlight Oh this is awkward,
Speaker 1: And I actually thought maybe they would play that out
Speaker 1: throughout the episode, like Morgan does come along and then
Speaker 1: Eric has to navigate having a father relationship with one
Speaker 1: kid and a brother relationship with another. I thought that
Speaker 1: was actually rich territory for a cool yeah, like conflict
Speaker 1: as it is like right now, I guess the act
Speaker 1: break conflict is that Alan and Amy are discovering that.
Speaker 1: But then that's like, what are they going to do, Like,
Speaker 1: it's not like they're going to say, don't date somebody
Speaker 1: who as a kid. That's not a problem really, it's
Speaker 1: just okay. So the conflict is kind of immediately evaporated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was waiting for something more to kind of develop here,
Speaker 1: and it, Yeah, doesn't it just happens.
Speaker 2: Ryan corrects her, she's my mom. Morgan says, then she'll
Speaker 2: just bring her mom too. Eric's had enough. Whoever wants
Speaker 2: to come can come, but for the love of God,
Speaker 2: no more talking. Kelly tells the Matthews it was nice
Speaker 2: meeting them, and she hopes to see them again. Amy
Speaker 2: says she's welcome anytime. Morgan apologizes to Ryan for thinking
Speaker 2: his mom was his sister, and Ryan shrugs, it's okay.
Speaker 2: It happens all the time. Kelly and Ryan walk out,
Speaker 2: with Morgan and following behind them, Morgan, no, goodbye, she
Speaker 2: just leaves. I was a little like, oh, I guess
Speaker 2: she is going.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize she's leaving now apparently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then we're in Corey's room. Corey complains to
Speaker 2: Eric about how nuts their dad is going about the
Speaker 2: whole car thing. Eric asks you, he's been all over
Speaker 2: me about Kelly and it's only been five dates. It's
Speaker 2: not like I'm planning my big June wedding. And then
Speaker 2: on cue, Eric walks out of the closet wearing a
Speaker 2: good looking guy tucks. As he checks himself out, Corey
Speaker 2: brings up the SATs again. They can even take them
Speaker 2: together and help each other out.
Speaker 1: This is my favorite see it of the episode, by
Speaker 1: the way, just you two in the bedroom. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Something about this too felt comfortable and it
Speaker 1: was all like, this is really fun. This felt old
Speaker 1: family sitcom dynamics, everyone sort of talking through where they're at.
Speaker 1: It's it's just good. It's good, and you guys are
Speaker 1: all so good in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Eric responds on my little Corey with your get
Speaker 2: smart quick schemes. The good old sessat ship sound.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of those lines that's just
Speaker 1: so so funny, I know, and yet so clever. It's
Speaker 1: just so stink and clever. I'm just like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the kind of thing that people like lodges into people's
Speaker 1: brains and they don't remember what episode of Boy thet
Speaker 1: World it is. But the good ship ss S s AT
Speaker 1: and your delivery. It's just so witty. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: It was fun dialogue.
Speaker 2: Corey clarifies, So that's it. No college. Eric shrugs. It's
Speaker 2: not like I'm ruining my life or anything. I'll just
Speaker 2: move on to what I would have done after college.
Speaker 2: Corey raises an eyebrow. Secret service guy. Eric gets serious,
Speaker 2: you read my secret dossier. Alan walks into say good night.
Speaker 2: He points to Corey. I hope you understand why I
Speaker 2: took away your driving privileges. Corey nods, I completely understand.
Speaker 2: So can I have the car tomorrow night? Alan scoffs.
Speaker 2: Cory must be kidding. Corey says, it's been a couple
Speaker 2: of days already. Why wouldn't he be able to Alan clarifies,
Speaker 2: I said a week. Alan then points to Eric. Take
Speaker 2: off my tuxedo. Eric groans fits Eric pretty perfectly right.
Speaker 3: We never ever get into why he's in the tuxio right,
Speaker 3: No idea? What I think we could be going to
Speaker 3: the prom somebody?
Speaker 1: No idea? Why never?
Speaker 3: It's never mentioned?
Speaker 1: Are you just trying to be more grown up? Is
Speaker 1: the idea? Like you're trying to dress up.
Speaker 2: I do think the the implication is that you were
Speaker 2: planning your June wedding and you are so invested in
Speaker 2: this relationship with her and imagining your future that you
Speaker 2: were like, I'm going to go try on my dad's top,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get a picture of this. That you
Speaker 2: really are lost in the fantasy of your future as
Speaker 2: a family man. So I think that's the implication, which
Speaker 2: is why it never really needs to be addressed. But
Speaker 2: it is odd. It's a little like Morgan getting into
Speaker 2: the tutu and then there'll be like no reason for
Speaker 2: that either.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe even just Alan being a little more confused,
Speaker 1: like take off my talks, what do you do? And
Speaker 1: then a response that kind of gives him.
Speaker 3: Anybody remember the last time Eric was in that same.
Speaker 2: Tux good look the good looking guy.
Speaker 1: Good looking guy, Yeah, which was an episode where you
Speaker 1: went on a date with a girl who does she
Speaker 1: have a kid? In that one too? Didn't at the
Speaker 1: end of the episode.
Speaker 2: You end up in it was the real episode?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I think she also has a kid.
Speaker 3: She did? Yeah, I remember the kids making put on texes,
Speaker 3: that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, kids equals kids make him get a job. The
Speaker 1: fear of dating a woman.
Speaker 2: With a kid spurs fantasy.
Speaker 1: Go on to the SATs and focus on college, because god,
Speaker 1: you could.
Speaker 2: Be a dad right now, Alan hoofs between the two
Speaker 2: of you, guys, I've got nothing. He walks out, and
Speaker 2: Corey is defeated. He's taking this dad stuff way too seriously.
Speaker 2: Eric tries to be the voice of reason. I've learned
Speaker 2: something and all the time I've spent with Ryan, the
Speaker 2: key to a successful father son relationship is friendship, communication
Speaker 2: and trust. And occasionally you throw in a Tootsie roll.
Speaker 2: Not bad advice.
Speaker 3: Tutsi rolls are great.
Speaker 2: And then we get a variation on the optical flip
Speaker 2: to Chubby's. We focus on a huge pile of Tutsi
Speaker 2: rolls on the pool room table where Eric and Ryan
Speaker 2: are sitting. It's not the pool room table, right right, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a bunch of toys and stuffed animals scattered around them.
Speaker 2: Ryan asks his new dad, what do we do now?
Speaker 2: Eric replies, we sit now, buddy, If that's okay, I
Speaker 2: think sitting's the only thing we haven't done all day.
Speaker 2: Ryan excitedly asks can we go to the zoo? Eric
Speaker 2: tells him they already went to the zoo. He reminds
Speaker 2: him how he had to jump into the ocelot cage
Speaker 2: to get Ryan's sixers hat from the game they went to.
Speaker 2: It is worth noting. Eric holds up the Classic Sports
Speaker 2: Specialties Sixers snapback, which currently averages around two hundred dollars
Speaker 2: on eBay.
Speaker 3: Who says, I didn't, I didn't.
Speaker 2: It's got mothballs in it. Ryan remembers, yes, right, Ryan remembers,
Speaker 2: you were scared. You ran fast. Eric thought the a
Speaker 2: lot was part of the Gerbil organization.
Speaker 1: Laughs, falling asleep because we are just doing backstory conversation
Speaker 1: for a page and a half. That is not funny,
Speaker 1: but you get to say what's happening, just kind of
Speaker 1: why are we talking about what happened? And two characters
Speaker 1: regurgitating their.
Speaker 2: Daily They needed to set up why. Eric was ready
Speaker 2: to take it with yeah and why yes.
Speaker 1: They having a page and a half of it, and
Speaker 1: then you did this, and then you did that, and
Speaker 1: then you.
Speaker 2: Did Ryan laughs. So they were Leopards, Eric shoots back,
Speaker 2: but you told me they were Gerbils. They share a
Speaker 2: laugh and Ryan tells them he doesn't mind sitting just
Speaker 2: as long as Eric sits with him. Eric says he'll
Speaker 2: be sitting with him, no worries, and then Corey to
Speaker 2: Pega and Sean walk in and Sean's shouts it's the
Speaker 2: baby to Pengaleen's down and gushas, aren't you adorable? Ryan
Speaker 2: hans are a Tootsie roll. In return, Sean announces, all
Speaker 2: right to Penga, me and Corey against you and you're
Speaker 2: going down to thank doesn't think that's fair? You didn't
Speaker 2: like that?
Speaker 1: No, what is happening to me that? I feel like
Speaker 1: I just showed up on tape night, read the script
Speaker 1: and was like what am I saying? Okay, and make
Speaker 1: it so false and so like forced.
Speaker 2: It's so Bega doesn't think that's fair, so she asks
Speaker 2: Eric to be on her team. Eric can't. He takes
Speaker 2: his babysitting responsibilities pretty seriously. As the gang gets the
Speaker 2: game ready, Eric turns to Ryan and pleads one quick game?
Speaker 2: Can I? Ryan wines, you said you were going to
Speaker 2: be with me. Eric assures him he'll still be with him,
Speaker 2: He just wants to play a quick game with his friends.
Speaker 2: Ryan asks if he can be on Eric's team, and
Speaker 2: Eric jokes, well, you're still too short to see over
Speaker 2: the table. Ryan sadly asks, you'd rather be with them?
Speaker 2: Eric says no, it's just that he's been with Ryan
Speaker 2: all day. Ryan siys, it's okay, you can go play
Speaker 2: with them. Eric tells him he's the coolest and hands
Speaker 2: him a Tootsie roll before tousling his hair and endearment.
Speaker 2: Ryan looks at the Tutsi roll and then back at
Speaker 2: Eric as he walks away. He's bummed. Eric grabs a
Speaker 2: pool stick and Sean asks what he and his baby
Speaker 2: have been up. To Eric's s eyes, they did everything
Speaker 2: there is to do in the world. Eric tells Corey,
Speaker 2: you have no idea how adult you look to me
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: I just want to there is nothing more devastating than
Speaker 1: you are kid, or a kid being more mature than you,
Speaker 1: or or like having sympathy for you as a as
Speaker 1: like I had this moment with Indy. We were on
Speaker 1: vacation with some friends and they had a daughter who
Speaker 1: was like two years younger than Indy, and he had
Speaker 1: spent all day with this four year old and he
Speaker 1: was six, and you know, four year old to a
Speaker 1: six year old seem like they're annoying or right, and
Speaker 1: so at the end of the night, you know, he
Speaker 1: and I were swimming in the pool at this hotel
Speaker 1: and he's like, Dad, let's say this girl's name was Sarah.
Speaker 1: He's like, Dad, when you hang out with me, is
Speaker 1: it like Sarah? Do I annoy you? Like Sarah annoys me?
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, yes, they are so insightful.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it feels like. Oh, but it broke
Speaker 1: my heart because I was like, oh, I cannot let
Speaker 1: him feel that, you know, But of course I had
Speaker 1: because I'm a parent and I'm harried and doing other
Speaker 1: things and letting it, you know, and I just it
Speaker 1: was like such it was the most heartbreaking thing because
Speaker 1: if he had said to me, like, Dad, hang out
Speaker 1: with me, play with me, I would have, you know,
Speaker 1: found a way to like rebuff him and talk to
Speaker 1: him or try and do it. But for him to
Speaker 1: like have the next level of like putting he knew
Speaker 1: my mental state and was able to see it, and
Speaker 1: that was just so devastated. I was like, yeah, sometimes
Speaker 1: sometimes you are you know, you're young.
Speaker 2: It's okay, it's okay, I still love you.
Speaker 1: Oh. Anyway, just reminded me of that a lot.
Speaker 2: That's so funny. That is very insightful of him. Though
Speaker 2: I appreciate that I don't want children.
Speaker 3: The more you guys talk, let's be honest.
Speaker 1: No, it's great, man, Now, anyone like this moment, even
Speaker 1: though it was devastating, was really beautiful in a way.
Speaker 1: You know, it actually brought Andy and I closer together
Speaker 1: because you know that I could say to him like, yea,
Speaker 1: you are kid, you are different than me, and that's great. Like,
Speaker 1: that's what's fun about our engagement is that we're not
Speaker 1: just friends. We're not the same, We're not equals in
Speaker 1: all of our development. It's it's a constant conversation.
Speaker 2: Ryan hears this and looks crushed. He walks over to
Speaker 2: Eric and tugs on his sweater. He asks if he
Speaker 2: can get some ice cream. Eric hands him some money
Speaker 2: and Ryan thanks him for everything. He runs off and
Speaker 2: Eric takes his first pool shot. Eric asks the group
Speaker 2: when they're actually taking the SATs into Panga tells him
Speaker 2: it's a week from Saturday. Sean gets a burst of
Speaker 2: pain again. A Corey reveals he told Sean that Saturday
Speaker 2: is just cake day at school and perhaps some crem
Speaker 2: brew let. He and Sean both grin.
Speaker 1: It's a cake face.
Speaker 3: Yea, The Simpsons.
Speaker 2: Eric calls his next shot and tells Ryan to come
Speaker 2: watch it, but it gets no response. They all turn
Speaker 2: to look for him, but he's gone. Sean gasps, the
Speaker 2: baby's gone.
Speaker 3: That's the new Chubby's angle, isn't it. Have we seen
Speaker 3: an angle before? No, whole table room straight through.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen that. Yeah, we've never seen all the
Speaker 2: way from the pool table room to the bar line
Speaker 2: the counter. Yeah. And then we're in Kelly's apartment. Eric's pacing.
Speaker 2: He yelled at Ryan. He can't believe he yelled at Ryan.
Speaker 2: Kelly assures him it's fine. Ryan's in bed, he's sleeping.
Speaker 2: It's over. Eric admits, I flipped out. I saw him
Speaker 2: sitting outside on the curb, and I started screaming at him.
Speaker 2: Even there, Even though Eric only took his eye off
Speaker 2: of him for one minute, anything could have happened. Eric
Speaker 2: asks how she does this every day. She says she
Speaker 2: does it because she loves him. Eric explains, I was
Speaker 2: with him all day. I just wanted a minute to myself,
Speaker 2: and he got so upset. Kelly tells him, he's not
Speaker 2: upset at you, he's upset at not having a full
Speaker 2: time father every minute of every day to make up
Speaker 2: for what he's lost. Eric says he needs so much.
Speaker 2: Kelly agrees and tells Eric he's going to be such
Speaker 2: a great dad when he's ready. Just because she's a
Speaker 2: mom doesn't mean he has to be a dad. Eric
Speaker 2: grabs her hand. He's not looking to get out of this,
Speaker 2: She shakes her head. I know that, but listen to me.
Speaker 2: You still have so many options available to you in
Speaker 2: your life. Take advantage of them, she nervously. She nervously laughs,
Speaker 2: you know I'm right. Eric musters out, you're dumping me.
Speaker 2: She says, no, I just think that the fair thing
Speaker 2: would be to get out of this before anybody gets
Speaker 2: too attached. Eric thinks he let her down, and she
Speaker 2: tells him no, the only way he could have let
Speaker 2: her down is if he stuck around just to be
Speaker 2: a nice guy.
Speaker 3: When I am acting in this scene, ooh, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: trying swinging for the fences in the scene, I'm really trying.
Speaker 3: This is a scene where I was like, man, it's
Speaker 3: I'm I liked set. I'm making choices, but I didn't
Speaker 3: like the choices I was making, So yeah.
Speaker 2: I thought it was good. I thought I thought it
Speaker 2: was a good scene between the two of you. She
Speaker 2: was great, She's yeah, she's really good in this whole episode.
Speaker 2: I actually, I really thought she did a nice job.
Speaker 2: She did a nice job of.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a tough balance to play a mom
Speaker 2: who is also a totally kind of well developed character
Speaker 2: outside of being a mom. And even though they don't
Speaker 2: give her like we don't know what she does for
Speaker 2: a living, we don't know any of her like, what
Speaker 2: she even likes. But I felt like, I, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I felt like I liked her as a woman, even
Speaker 2: though all I really knew about her was that she
Speaker 2: was a mom. But I didn't feel like that's one
Speaker 2: of the three types.
Speaker 1: Not a fast girl. She's a mom.
Speaker 2: She's a good girl. She's a mom, good girl, a
Speaker 2: good girl mom. Even though to be a out of
Speaker 2: wedlock mom means she used to be a fast a
Speaker 2: reformed fast.
Speaker 1: Girl or jacket. It's in the closet.
Speaker 3: Corey. She had her own Corey. They were married at eighteen,
Speaker 3: and he passed away in a fiery car crash. Right,
Speaker 3: you don't know, you don't know. She could have been
Speaker 3: a girl, girl, the entire way.
Speaker 2: You have no idea right. Yeah, she could have been
Speaker 2: married at eighteen and married for five days tbanga was
Speaker 2: Eric tells her again, I'm not looking to get out
Speaker 2: of this. She shrugs, well, you know where we live.
Speaker 2: They both look at each other endearingly, and then Ryan
Speaker 2: calls out for his mom. He needs her.
Speaker 1: She smiles, she's okay with caddily dating.
Speaker 2: No, I do think you know where we live is.
Speaker 3: You can come back if you grow up. No, you're
Speaker 3: ready for this.
Speaker 2: I really think. She's saying, you are too nice to
Speaker 2: tell me that you're in over your head. But I
Speaker 2: see that you're in over your head and that's make
Speaker 2: and so I'm going to end it. But you're also
Speaker 2: telling me that you're not willing. I don't want this
Speaker 2: to be put on me. I'm not willing to say yes,
Speaker 2: I'm breaking up with you because I don't like you.
Speaker 2: But I do think if I just if I give
Speaker 2: you an easy out and you really think about it,
Speaker 2: you won't be back because you do know that I'm right,
Speaker 2: And that is then kind of what happens. He leaves
Speaker 2: her house, and his drive home is him thinking about
Speaker 2: do I take the SATs? Do I go to college?
Speaker 2: Is that really what I want?
Speaker 4: Do?
Speaker 2: I want to be a dad now? And he ends
Speaker 2: up making the decision by the time he gets home,
Speaker 2: I'm going to take the SATs. So I did like
Speaker 2: that that that they didn't put him in as they
Speaker 2: didn't put Eric in a situation where she made the
Speaker 2: choice for.
Speaker 3: She opened the door and he's got to decide what
Speaker 3: he wants.
Speaker 2: To do exactly. And she said, you know, listen, I
Speaker 2: think I think if you really are honest with yourself
Speaker 2: and with me, you would realize that you're not ready
Speaker 2: for this. And and what would make me would what
Speaker 2: would be worse for me is for you sticking around
Speaker 2: just to be a nice guy. And and so I
Speaker 2: think they did a pretty good job there. I did
Speaker 2: like that that it was on him. It wasn't that she,
Speaker 2: she took made the choice for him. So Eric holds
Speaker 2: one of the stuffed animals that he got for Ryan
Speaker 2: today and he looks down at it in distress. He
Speaker 2: places it on the table by the doorway and he
Speaker 2: lets himself out, And then we're in the Matthews living room.
Speaker 2: Amy and Allen are cuddling on the couch watching the news.
Speaker 2: Corey tries to quietly sneak in the front door before
Speaker 2: realizing his parents are right there.
Speaker 3: They had to be howling, just the idea. It's he's
Speaker 3: they're staring at him.
Speaker 4: He's staring at them, but he still tiptoes up and
Speaker 4: so good, it's so so funny.
Speaker 2: He's like, commit, just commit.
Speaker 3: It was so funny.
Speaker 2: They stare at him as he tiptoes past them. Once
Speaker 2: he gets to the stairs, he whispers yes, then walks
Speaker 2: to the middle of the stairs, turns around and pretends
Speaker 2: like he's walking down for the first time. Hey, mommy, daddy,
Speaker 2: how you doing. Look at you two? Watching tv? He
Speaker 2: dramatically complains about his eyes. It'd be nice to look
Speaker 2: at something other than a book. Amy deadpans, we know
Speaker 2: you took the car. Corey responds, Sorry, guys, my friends
Speaker 2: needed a ride. You weren't around. It was late. Alan
Speaker 2: angrily responds, I don't care. Eric walks in as the
Speaker 2: argument begins, and Alan continues, you just bought yourself two weeks.
Speaker 2: Corey shocked, and he's acting very entitled. My friends needed
Speaker 2: a ride, Okay, it was late. Why are you treating
Speaker 2: me like a kid? Eric jumps in because you are
Speaker 2: a kid. Corey scoffs, this is none of your business. Okay.
Speaker 2: Eric admits, you're right, it's not because I'm not a dad.
Speaker 2: I do know that he's got a tough time raising us,
Speaker 2: and I know that we don't make it any easier.
Speaker 2: Eric points to Alan. You think he likes yelling at us.
Speaker 2: He doesn't. He hates it, and he can't keep his
Speaker 2: eyes on us every second. Now, go to your room.
Speaker 2: Corey's flabbergasted. He turns to Alan. Are you gonna let
Speaker 2: him just? Alan cuts him off, Go to your room.
Speaker 2: Alan turns to Eric pleasantly surprised. Maybe you are ready
Speaker 2: to be a dad. Eric reveals she dumped me. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go upstairs and study for my SATs. And then
Speaker 2: the crown ooo round of applause. Apparently everyone was secretly
Speaker 2: really rooting for you to take the SATs. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: guess so, I was not aware of that.
Speaker 3: I wasn't either, but I guess it's I mean, the
Speaker 3: audience doesn't lie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, those inmates.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then we're in the tag. We're in the Matthews
Speaker 2: living room. Alan and Amy are watching TV popcorn to
Speaker 2: Panga and Corey barge through the door. Corey greets them,
Speaker 2: how are you too this evening? Amy responds, you're home
Speaker 2: a little late. Corey nods, yes, we are. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 2: Tapeka urges him not to make a big deal of it,
Speaker 2: but Corey dismisses it. He wants to know who had
Speaker 2: the car last. Amy points to Alan. Corey sarcastically asks,
Speaker 2: I just want to know what happened to that house
Speaker 2: rule the one that goes whoever had the car? Last
Speaker 2: puts gas in the tank. Alan mocks him, Sorry, core
Speaker 2: I forgot. Corey breaks into something very familiar. You're about
Speaker 2: seven blocks late for sorry. Alan needs some clarity. Let
Speaker 2: me get this straight. You're out with your girlfriend, you
Speaker 2: legitimately run out of gas. You push the car back
Speaker 2: seven blocks just to yell at me. Corey responds, no,
Speaker 2: I just wanted to explain why we were home so late,
Speaker 2: and to say thank you to Penga shouts Corey, and
Speaker 2: Corey tells her thank you too.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. What's the joke?
Speaker 2: Did you he made out in the car.
Speaker 3: That's something happened in the car, because the old joke is, Hey, babe, sorry,
Speaker 3: I ran out of her. Now we're trapped in the
Speaker 3: car with nothing dwe And so essentially what they were
Speaker 3: saying was the pango was due to your right while
Speaker 3: they were down there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we also pushed against everything. So I guess
Speaker 2: we were like making out while pushing a car back.
Speaker 1: No, because because you would have pushed the car back
Speaker 1: seven blocks relatively quickly and then you just outside.
Speaker 2: We were gone all night making out or you were.
Speaker 3: Making out seven blocks away and then.
Speaker 5: Pushed then pushed the car right, it's yeah, right, I really,
Speaker 5: I honestly just didn't understand what's happened.
Speaker 1: I was like, is the joke that they just came
Speaker 1: home and they didn't get to go on their day
Speaker 1: and then okay, now I get it.
Speaker 2: We to Panga.
Speaker 1: But against everything that Corey, Corey.
Speaker 2: Just kisses, just kisses, just kisses making out.
Speaker 1: It's you just called me, genuinely called me Sean. Did
Speaker 1: she did play back the tape? He just kisses show
Speaker 1: on My name is writer?
Speaker 2: God, you could tell me that as many times as
Speaker 2: you want. I don't believe it.
Speaker 1: You gotta hangro.
Speaker 2: Why is Seans away?
Speaker 1: God?
Speaker 3: My god?
Speaker 1: Why does Sean have so many books behind him Sean.
Speaker 2: Did Sean take the s A T S o.
Speaker 1: Oh, guys, I gotta go, I gotta go. Oh.
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